*Our Colo-Media Echoes Goal.com UK: “Over 66% Feel Luis Suarez was Right”

*(For the news-item above happily published by a number of Ghanaian newspapers,
see, for example, PEACE FM Online and MyJoyOnLine.com July 4, 2010).

**By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

Goal.com UK’s worldview
Lopsided worldview of othering
Its hegemonic opinion-polls
Would idolize Luis Suarez
“66% feel Luis Suarez was right”
The hero of celebrated cheaters
And Ghanaian journalists accept it all
Inky fraternity without pens
Inky fraternity with evaporated ink
Goal.com UK says it
Like a drop of water in the sun
The Ghanaian media evaporates
Goal.com UK is not our voice
Goal.com is not our mirror
It is the lens of hegemony
That disempowers us
Justifies our suffering
Bruising our pain
Histories of pain
Of the inferior other
Of Africans

Ghanaian media
Stop adoring Western sources
Develop your own voices
Tell us what Ghanaians think
Tell the world about our viewpoints
Ghanaian perspectives on Suarez
African frameworks of protests
Dreams differed by Suarez’s theft
Our fury, anger, dismay
Throbbing hearts of anguish
Tears shed all over the Serengeti
Tears that entombed us
From Accra to Alavanyo
From Cairo to Jo’Burg
Our aching sighs of pain
Ghanaian media
Tell us what Ghanaians think
Tell the world about our pain
Our worldviews
What we feel about Suarez
What we think about FIFA

The Ghanaian media
Feeds too much on Western carcasses
Western lopsided news-item
Sanitized news
The Ghanaian media
Hunts for Western-laced news
Forages for it
Poisonous news
Re-cooks it in local news rooms
News-items made more palatable
With recipes of colo-mentality
Ghanaians happily gobble it down
Live with its acidic indigestion
Oh! Our atrophied body-politic
Oh! Our colo-mentality

The Ghanaian media
Loves hegemonic news
Symptomatic of our dependency
Of me buroni
On me buroni
In this walking life of inequalities
Of globalized inequalities
They call Globalization
Our lived experiences of inferiorization
That disempowers us
Africanizing inferiority

Our colonized media
Hails every garbage
Any filth from the West
Any non-African thing
Stories, news, histories
Concocted by our delirious foes
Our journalists
The inky fraternity
Of cut-and-paste specialists
Never ask questions
Like Vultures at noon
Vultures dancing over a carcass
They only care to eat
The West kills us
Our media eats the carcass
Our colonized media
Agent of Western hegemony
Feed us with hegemonic diet
Of poisonous recipes

Oh! Ghanaian media
Tell the world about our viewpoints
Ghanaian perspectives on Suarez
African frameworks of protests
Dreams differed by Suarez’s theft
Our fury, anger, dismay
Throbbing hearts of anguish
The pain from Suarez’s theft
Tears shed all over the Serengeti
Mourning that entombed us
From Accra to Alavanyo
From Cairo to Jo’Burg
Restore our voices to history
Tell the world about our pain
Goal.com UK is not our voice
It is the lens of hegemony
That bruises our pain
Braided histories of pain

**Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained oral
historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in Pennsylvania with
her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college in Maryland. In her
pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist hyperbolic, satirical”
poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com